Software Catalog

Question 1

What is the purpose of the software catalog?

Answer 1

Removes the need to access the McAfee Product Download website to retrieve new McAfee software and software updates

Question 2

What is available in the Software Catalog?

Answer 2

• Licensed software - Software that your organization has purchased from McAfee. The status column provides a list of licensed software that is not currently installed on your server
• Evaluation Software - Software for which your organization doesn’t possess a license. You can install evaluation software on your server, but functionality might be restricted until you acquire a product license
• Software updates - Released software that has new updates. You can use the software catalog to check in new packages and extensions
• Product documentation

Question 3

What does the product compatibility list do?

Answer 3

Identifies products that are not longer compatible in your ePO environment

Question 4

When does ePO perform a Product Compatibility Check?

Answer 4

Any time the installation and startup of an extension might leave your server in an undesirable state.

It occurs:

• During an upgrade from a previous version of ePO
• When an extension is installed from the Extension menu
• Before a new extension is retrieved from the Software Catalog
• When a new compatibility list is received from McAfee
• When the Data Migration Tool runs

Question 5

When is the Product Compatibility List automatically updated?

Answer 5

• As part of a background task
• When the Software Catalog content is refreshed
• When you re-enable the download setting for the Product Compatibility List (also re-enables Software Catalog automatic updates of the Product compatibility list)